Hopefully Woody doesn't spent the entire summer trying to get Bale and neglecting any other signings.
Gareth Bale
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I wouldn't sell ADM but I would not be adverse to selling Mata to fund. We already in a position where we are trying to fit so many like players into the squad. I think ADM plays better in the middle so put him in the middle. I think Di Maria adds more to the squad anyway.
If there is a chance at all of getting him I am sure we will go for it.
Paying Madrid what they paid Spurs wouldn't be a bad deal.
He will be a monster in our team. At Real, it's the Ronaldo show.
Hopefully his poor form continues and it opens doors.
Would be amazing to get pace back in the team.
Paying Madrid what they paid Spurs wouldn't be a bad deal.
He will be a monster in our team. At Real, it's the Ronaldo show.
Hopefully his poor form continues and it opens doors.
Would be amazing to get pace back in the team.
You're reading too much into this speculation.
Bear in mind that Falcao's fee is half of eats needed, and his wages cover Bale's.
The thought of Bale with 11 shirt running down the wings... 
...still not convinced that this is going to happen, though.
...still not convinced that this is going to happen, though.
If Real are ditching a toy for Reus I'd prefer Isco for half this reported Bale fee.
Nope not at all.
I highly doubt we'd pay anywhere close to that if we are interested. I'd be happy if we forked out 60-80m for him though as I think he'd be brilliant at United and always have thought so.
Madrid will soon be regretting spending so much on him with his current form. He's not suited to playing in a team like Madrid and is a bit overrated in my opinion.
If we decided to give Madrid a huge fee then the joke is on us. Not worth anywhere near the quoted figures.
If we decided to give Madrid a huge fee then the joke is on us. Not worth anywhere near the quoted figures.
It will be lunacy if United bid more than 70-80 million Euros for Gareth Bale.
He's suited to the Premiership and he would be a fantastic signing, it's not my money so I don't care how much he costs.
Falcao (45) + Mata (18) + Fellaini (10) + Hernandez (15) would, considering wages, pretty much equal a 100 bid for Bale over the course of the next 2-3 seasons, and we'd be a much, much better team, both against crap teams with RVP up top supported by the fantastic trio of DiMaria-Rooney-Bale, and against good teams with Rooney up top centrally, Bale on one side and then Di Maria and Herrera running around and Blind and Carrick holding, or some such thing.
We need wide talent to rack up Prem points, and wide talent to be able to generate offense in big games without playing some narrow or conservative formation.
Bale would even be massive for the 3-5-2, playing the Robben role miles better than anyone else we have.
He's worth overpaying for.
You make it all sound so easy and more importantly tasty. I'm in !
Why? We spent 60m on Di Maria who has a long way to go to emulate gareth Bale's PL form? Ozil, Mata and many more go for large money and they are just glitter. Bale can actually put you in contention almost single handedly when fit and firing!
Because it's fecking idiotic. Buy Bale, buy Vidal, buy Strootman, buy Godin, buy Reus. That cannot be the solution, I don't care how much money United have (and I'm sure we don't have unlimited funds). All these guys were bought for cheap at some point, now they command humongous fees. Our scouts job is to buy them before Tottenham/Real, Juve, Roma, Atleti and Dortmund got them.
FFS Bale was bought for 5-10 million pounds from Spurs, Vidal was bought for 10 million from Juve even though he was Buli player of the year the season he moved, Strootman was bought for €17m from Roma, Godin was purchased for €8m from Atleti, BVB bought Reus for €17m from Gladbac etc.
We have gone from a policy of looking out for "value" to just throwing cash around, to the point where £120m is quoted for Gareth fckn Bale. For what it's worth, I think Bale is an amazing athlete who happens to be a good footballer, not the other way around. His experience at Real is showing it.
Anyways, enough ranting from me.
FFS Bale was bought for 5-10 million pounds from Spurs, Vidal was bought for 10 million from Juve even though he was Buli player of the year the season he moved, Strootman was bought for €17m from Roma, Godin was purchased for €8m from Atleti, BVB bought Reus for €17m from Gladbac etc.
We have gone from a policy of looking out for "value" to just throwing cash around, to the point where £120m is quoted for Gareth fckn Bale. For what it's worth, I think Bale is an amazing athlete who happens to be a good footballer, not the other way around. His experience at Real is showing it.
Anyways, enough ranting from me.
There's nothing that even remotely suggests that we're actually going for this
Err we are a club who always splashed out in the past for the right player. I would argue Bale is that player and not Di Maria. Yes I was all for Strootman pre Roma when no one on here wanted him! Likewise Bale at Southampton but I think we did go in for him then, like we went in for Ramsey and plenty of others who fit your crtiteria but went elsewhere. I'm not suggesting we carry on this ludicrous spending when we have a manager who was largely sold to us as the x factor when it came to improving young players (havent seen any of that yet). But for the right player like Bale, we stick to your principles, Chelsea or City buy him, and we are even further behind them because of our idealism. Sorry but thats not the way our club was under Fergie, and shouldn't be like it now.
Bale struggled for 3 seasons at Spurs, and we did go in for him, but at the time, I do think Reus and Vidal were playing well enough at a young enough age that we really should have gone in for one. Godin was good at Villareal, but maybe less of a no-brainer.
Who do you see as similar now? Who is tearing up the Bundesliga or La Liga like Reus or Vidal and available for 10-20 million?
Hilarious that some people try and suggest he wouldn't be worth a mega fee for us.
He would be the best player in the league.
He would be the best player in the league.
He wouldn't even be your best player never mind best in the league.
The overrating of Bale on this forum never fails to amaze me. Real payed 80M for the golden boot and Ballon D'Or winner and are supposed to pay 120M for a player that wasn't even in the closer selection of a Ballon D'Or ever in his professional career and has been underwhelming for his current club considering that they payed for him the same amount of money they payed for a now 3 times Ballon D'Or winner and most likely future record goal scorer of their club. Mind. Boggling.
Agüero's head and shoulders above Bale.
Here we go again. No doubt we'll have a whole page of Aguero versus Bale now.
Who cares if he'd be 'the best'? What we do know is that he's very capable of doing what Sanchez is currently doing - contributing to almost a goal a game, even in this disjointed United side. He's like Fabregas in that he's made for this league. He comes back, he regains his 'main man' position, and he picks up where he left off at Tottenham.
What would it matter if Aguero's seen as on a different level? Would that somehow stop Bale winning us games?
He'd be up there with any match winner we currently have in this league. That would be enough for me.
Who cares if he'd be 'the best'? What we do know is that he's very capable of doing what Sanchez is currently doing - contributing to almost a goal a game, even in this disjointed United side. He's like Fabregas in that he's made for this league. He comes back, he regains his 'main man' position, and he picks up where he left off at Tottenham.
What would it matter if Aguero's seen as on a different level? Would that somehow stop Bale winning us games?
He'd be up there with any match winner we currently have in this league. That would be enough for me.
Almost nobody in this thread has said we are 'supposed' to pay £120 million for him.He is a match-Winner, around 80-100m would be fair for a player of his calibre.
Will be interesting to see if Real Madrid is willing to sell him.
Will be interesting to see if Real Madrid is willing to sell him.
You know our luck. We will sign Bale and then he will just keep getting injured and never get a good run of games.
Best player in the league. Deary me.
I don't think Bale will age well at all either. His game is so heavily based around his blistering pace. One serious injury could also be a massive problem.
I don't think Bale will age well at all either. His game is so heavily based around his blistering pace. One serious injury could also be a massive problem.
We'd be a laughing stock if we paid anywhere near £120 mil for him. For all the laughing at Madrid, and the 'circus' over recent years, we'd just blow that away in one fell swoop.
He is better than that, he is very good technically, and could play without sprinting all the time.
And people thought the same thing about Robben, who was also injury prone. Bale will be fine.
People like to underrate him just because he is british.
And yet some would happily see us do that despite taking part in that ridiculing of teams buying success and calling their success hollow. Talk about fickle.
He's decent technically but nothing out of the ordinary, shooting aside. His close control wouldn't be good enough if he lost his pace, but he'd maybe improve before that ever happens anyway.
Yep, I have no problem with us spending money. In fact I positively endorse it, but there has to be a cut off limit before we make ourselves look like desperate mugs.
Yes he's good. 120m good? Nope. I'm sure most would sign him for half that price for example.
People should stop with the 120m story, it's not the price like we didn't bought Shaw for +40m or Bayern had more than one benatia's legs.
and yes 120m is too much, but why insisting on that and using that to underrate Bale, i don't see the same argument with Mats "40m" Hummels.
Why do you care how "we" look?
Because it puts us in an even weaker bargaining position when it comes to buying players.
We are United, it will change nothing when Woodward call for a player, the said player costs instantly 50% more, and it has nothing to do with our precedent purchases.
Despite pursuing a "value"-based strategy over the last few years we repeatedly overpaid for players when Sir Alex was here, so I'm not sure it really counts for much here at all. On the flipside Madrid managed to get the likes of Isco on the cheap in the same summer they paid mega money for Bale despite already having this reputation of spending whatever's necessary to get the player their presidente wants.
I was more interested in why you cared about this making us look like a laughing stock in any case.
I was more interested in why you cared about this making us look like a laughing stock in any case.
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